Boggo Road & Beyond  

Tom King (2007)

Tom King spent 33 years of his working life at various Queensland prisons, rising to the rank of superintendent. In 1989, together with hundreds of other senior and junior prison staff throughout the state, he was declared redundant and the Kennedy report, which preceded the American inspired "cost effective" prisons-for-profit concept, was produced.

In Boggo Road and Beyond, Tom recalls his time at Boggo Road and other prisons, where he was a first-hand witness to some of the most interesting and turbulent eras in Queensland prison history, and he offers a frank and compelling assessment of what was right and wrong with the system during that time.

RRP $20 (through BRGHS)268 pages, paperback